Crime Expert BURL BARER. Edgar Award Winner and NYT Bestselling Author

SNAPPED!

Snapped is Oxygen's true-life crime series about the American dream becoming the ultimate American nightmare. Each episode focuses on an average woman who suddenly "snaps" and kills her husband or someone else close to her. Sometimes it's greed for their mate's money. Other times it's resentment for the lies and deceit within a relationship.

It only makes sense that Burl Barer, Brilliant Author, make a special guest appearance on an upcoming episode.  Yes, the wonderful folks who produce SNAPPED are flying me to Austin, Texas this coming Thursday because they are doing a show about Rhonda Glover, convicted of murdering her boyfriend, Jimmy Joste.  This same case is the subject of my next true crime book for Pinnacle!  Everyone from the crew of SNAPPED is being so gracious and friendly, I'm sure this will be a delight!

As I will be in Texas this Saturday, and Don Woldman will also be out of town, TRUE CRIMES on Outlaw Radio will be one of our Greatest Hits, selected by producer Matt Alan. So, if you have missed some of our past shows -- and not all of them are on the archive player -- tune in Saturday 2pm PST.  Listen Live by clicking this link!

Burl Barer                                                      Matt Alan, Producer of TRUE CRIMES

LAS VEGAS AND THE MOB -- BATTLE FOR SIN CITY!!

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If you saw the movie, CASINO, you saw the fiction version of this real life saga of The Battle for Las Vegas.  Get the real story from Dennis N. Griffin

Dennis N. Griffin

Griffin not only wrote The Battle for Las Vegas, he also wrote Policing Las Vegas, and his most recent "mobbed up" best seller, Cullotta  

  

Mystery and nonfiction writer Griffin covered the Vegas reign of kingpin Tony the Ant Spilotro in The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law vs. the Mob. Digging deeper into mob history, he now focuses on Spilotro's lifelong pal, career criminal Cullotta, who appeared in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film, Casino, recreating an actual murder he committed in 1979. Spilotro and Cullotta met in Chicago as teenage troublemakers, and early chapters detail the violent escapades of Cullotta's youth before he escalated to major crimes. Spilotro rose in the ranks of the mob and became the Chicago Outfit's man in Las Vegas, and Cullotta eventually joined him, running a robbery and murder crew. Together, Spilotro and Cullotta extorted illegal bookmakers and drug dealers throughout Vegas. But in the early 1980s, Cullotta became a government witness, bringing down the house. In addition to poring through newspaper archives, Griffin interviewed various sheriffs, attorneys, agents and detectives, while primarily relying on information from retired FBI agent Arnoldy and what Pileggi calls the phenomenal memory of Cullotta himself. Griffin's flat, unemotional yet potent writing makes the bloodletting, murders and mayhem chilling and unnerving throughout.

How to Understand Women -- WHO KILL!

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 Crime expert, lecturer, journalist and “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer,” M. William Phelps is the author of 12 books. He has appeared on Court TV, The Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, CN8, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” The Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Montel Williams, Oxygen, Geraldo At Large, USA Radio Network, ABC News Radio and Radio America He’s written for the Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, the New London Day, and been profiled in such noted publications as Writer's Digest, NY Daily News, Newsday, Albany Times-Union, Hartford Courant, Advance for Nurses magazine, Forensic Nursing. Phelps has also consulted for the Showtime cable television series “Dexter.” 

 
Phelps is currently writing a book about Amy Archer-Gilligan, Joseph Kesselring's inspiration for the smash Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace, which later became a Hollywood film. "What's interesting about Amy Archer, beyond her method of murder, is that she was, in my opinion, responsible for inventing and developing what we know today as elderly home care by opening the first private sector nursing home (as a business venture) in the early 1900s. This is the story of how that concept came to be-and, more important, how Amy Archer murdered perhaps two dozen men and women who sought refuge from old age in her home."

Phelps books include Nathan Hale, Failures of the Presidents, Perfect Poison, Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make, Sleep In Heavenly Peace, Murder in the Heartland, Because You Loved Me, If Looks Could Kill, I’ll Be Watching You, Cruel Death (2009) and Deadly Secrets (2009).


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Vote for Me and I'll Set you Free!!!

We have awards for everything, including Best True Crime Radio Show. The show I do with Don Woldman, TRUE CRIMES, has been mominated for the In Cold Blog DETECTIVE AWARD.

YOU can vote...you don't have to vote for our show, but that would be nice. You can also vote for Best True Crime Book, Best Novel Based on a True Crime, Best True Crime Blog, blogger, TV Show, Movie etc.

DEWEY MARTIN of Buffalo Springfield has Died. Another friend gone!

I knew Dewey longer than most folks have been alive. We met in the 1960's and were together in Van Nuys only a few months ago -- he gave me a ride from O utlaw Radio as we lived only a few blocks from each other.  Still stunned to hear of his death, I don't have mu ch to say right now, except that I'm shocked by this news.  There will be a tribute to Dewey on Outlaw Radio immediately following my TRUE CRIMES show. Listen, please -- Dewey deserves it.   TRUE CRIMES starts at 2pm PST, followed at 3pm pst by the special tribute edition of OUTLAW RADIO. You can listen live from the TRUE CRIMES site, or from the listen live link at OUTLAW RADIO's site. 

May Dewey Martin find peace and happiness.

Erin Moriarty of 48 Hrs. - CBS Resident Crime Hottie!

• It is amazing but true -- I get the most cool people to guest on my TRUE CRIMES internet radio show! This Saturday, unless something horrid happens, Erin Moriarty of 48 hrs joins Don Woldman and me. To listen live, just click that link below at 2pm PST.

LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY 2PM PST BY CLICKING THIS LINK! Erin Moriarty has been a correspondent for 48 Hours since 1990. She has covered the death of Princess Diana, the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, the murder of financier Edmund Safra, and the war in Iraq. Before that, Moriarty was the consumer correspondent for CBS This Morning 1986-90 and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in 1990. 

ERIN MORIARTY of 48 HRS

Drawing on her training as an attorney, Moriarty has examined some of the most important social and legal issues of the day, including DNA testing of evidence in death-row cases, the abortion controversy and battered women's syndrome. She covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School shootings and the 9/11 investigation, overseas. Her exclusive behind-the-scenes report on the defense of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was broadcast on 60 Minutes in 1997. 

Moriarty has received numerous honors, including nine national Emmy Awards, a 2001 Overseas Press Club Award for her work on 48 Hours and two Association of Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Awards for the weekly talk show that she co-hosted with Nancy Giles on WPHT Radio in Philadelphia (2003-04). In both 2000 and 2003, she was honored with the Top 100 Award from Irish America magazine. In 1988, Moriarty received the Outstanding Consumer Media Service Award presented by the Consumer Federation of America for "her many contributions of both local and national significance as a consumer reporter." 

Prior to joining CBS News in 1986, she was an award winning consumer reporter for the NBC Owned and Operated WMAQ-TV Chicago (1983 86). She was also a reporter in Columbus (Ohio) at the NBC affiliate WCMH-TV (1979-80), Baltimore at the CBS affiliate WJZ-TV (1980-82) and Cleveland at CBS affiliate WJKW-TV (1982-83). 

Moriarty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She was graduated from Ohio State University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in behavioral sciences and received a law degree from the university in 1977. Moriarty is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Maryland.